Word: judgment
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Emotions are fickle and subjective. They do not rely on objective standards for the judgment of right and wrong. It is dangerous to make life and death decisions in the throes of passion. Emotions have another characteristic that renders them inadequate for making decisions about justice. By their very nature emotions are reactive, not predictive. Predictions and planning belong in the domain of reason...
...about Hill's claims that Thomas sexually harassed her when he was the Reagan-appointed head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC and she was a 25-year-old staffer. Though public opinion eventually tilted in Hill's favor, there are still people waiting for the cold-eyed judgment of history to clear things...
Pending that, the judgment of journalists with book contracts will have to do. Last year David Brock, a writer for the bratty conservative monthly the American Spectator, published The Real Anita Hill, which suggested that Hill was a woman romantically obsessed with Thomas. "Nutty, and a bit slutty," he called her. Now comes Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas (Houghton Mifflin; $24.95), in which Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, reporters for the Wall Street Journal, offer a picture of Thomas as a man possessed by racial resentments and by good-looking female staffers, whose assets he was not above...
Blazing oil borne by floodwaters swept into an Egyptian town, killing some 500 people, many of them incinerated as they slept. Survivors "thought it was the Day of Judgment," according to one witness who saw "a wave of people running toward the mosque screaming 'There is only one God!' " The conflagration in Durunka, located 213 miles south of Cairo, was ignited when government oil- storage tanks ruptured and spilled their inflammable contents...
Guessing wrong on the market's direction is a hazard of the job. But Garzarelli also raised questions about her judgment when in a 1989 television appearance she recommended her firm's own stock, only to say a few days later she didn't know that was against the rules. And last August police in East Hampton, New York, arrested her on suspicion of drunken driving as she drove a male friend home from an all-night bout of champagne drinking. Garzarelli has pleaded not guilty to the charges...